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Theodor Herzl And Zionism - 710 words
Theodor Herzl And Zionism One of the most
important influences in the movement that led to
the creation of the state of Israel was Jewish
writer and journalist Theodor Herzl. He was born
on May 2, 1860 in Budapest, Hungary. Herzl studied
law in Vienna, but later on went into a literary
career. This proved a good decision, as he became
a well-known playwright and essayist and in 1891,
Hertzl was appointed Paris correspondent for the
Vienna Neue Freie Presse (New Free Press). During
the Alfred Dreyfus affair in 1894, anti-Semitic
feelings in France spread greatly. This greatly
affected Hertzl because before that he believed
that the best solution of anti-Semitism in Europe
was the assimilation ...
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Zionism And Zionists - 1,206 words
Zionism And Zionists ZIONISM AND ZIONISTS In the
years just after World War II, Zionism (the desire
to rebuild a Jewish national presence in the
Promised Land) became a popular Jewish cause all
around the world. Many Jews who were not
practicing Judaism at all with religion became
involved with the establishment of the State of
Israel. Even today, many years after the
successful founding of the State of Israel, there
are Jews whose only real tie to Judaism is their
belief in Zionism and their support for the State
of Israel. They are joined by many Jews who are
members of synagogues and support a modern Jewish
religious movement, but who also find their prime
identity as Jews in the Zionist ...
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Zionism And Zionists - 1,171 words
... red the ordination of women as rabbis. The
Reform movement currently has the largest
membership of any Jewish religious group in the
United States. It is well represented in Europe,
Asia, Mexico, and Australia; and, in recent years,
it has had some limited success in Israel, as
well. CONSERVATIVE JUDAISM The Conservative
movement emerged in Germany and America in the
last century. The early leaders of Conservative
Judaism broke away from the German Reform movement
in order to pursue a middle route between radical
reform and reactionary stagnation. In America,
leaders of the Reform movement actually helped to
establish Conservative Judaism in the early
twentieth century, in the belief tha ...
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A Philosopher Of Nature - 1,482 words
A Philosopher Of Nature A PHILOSOPHER OF NATURE
December 1, 1998 Paper # 2 Intro to Philosophy
Fifty years ago the single greatest philosopher
walked upon this earth. How can I be so dauntless
as to refer to one man as The Greatest
philosopher? The answer is simple. All
philosophers ask questions. Few of these questions
will produce earth-shattering revelations and even
fewer will change the world. Out of the handful of
philosophers who have made a difference in the
world I can think of only one who has, by use of
an amazing mind and knowledge of complex
mathematics, changed the world forever. Albert
Einstein was born in Ulm Germany on March 14,
1879, and spent his youth in Munich, where his ...
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Albert Einstein - 1,461 words
Albert Einstein Albert Einstein In the next few
pages I will talk about a famous mathematician I
decided to choose and write an essay about. I
chose probably the most well known
mathematician/inventor in the world, his name is
Albert Einstein. I chose him because he is the one
I know the most about and finding information
would not have been as hard. In the next few pages
I will tell you about his life as a kid, his life
as a mathematician, and his life as an inventor.
His name was Albert Einstein. He was born on March
14, 1879 in Ulm, Germany. Before his first
birthday, his family had moved to Munich were
Albert's father, Hermann Einstein, and uncle set
up a small Electro-chemical business. ...
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Albert Einstein - 1,015 words
Albert Einstein Albert Einstein was a famous
scientist, writer and professor. He was born in
Ulm, Germany, on March 24,1879. As a child,
Einstein wasn't like the other boys: he hated
school but loved math. He was shy, and talked very
slowly. He didn't participate in sports but
instead played with mechanical toys, put together
jigsaw puzzles, built towers and studied nature.
At school and home he would ask many questions and
because of that everybody thought he was dumb.
Once when he was sick in bed, his father Herman,
bought him a compass; and Albert asked "Why does
the needle point to the north?" His father didn't
know the answer. Herman was calm, friendly and had
a black mustache. Einstein ...
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Arab Israeli Conflicts From 1960 1970 - 1,113 words
Arab / Israeli Conflicts From 1960 - 1970 Israel's
incredible victories, in just 6 days, Israeli
armies conquered the West Bank, including the Old
City of Jerusalem, the Gaza strip and the Syrian
Golan Heights, defeating simultaneously the armies
of Egypt, Jordan and Syria. But more than that,
Israel created a new reality in the Middle East -
and sowed the seeds for deep dissent within its
own society. Today over 400,000 Israelis live on
land conquered in the 1967 war. Their fate and the
fate of those lands is the stumbling block on
which over 20 years of attempts to forge a
comprehensive peace between Israel and her Arab
neighbours has floundered. For some Israelis,
Zionism was fulfilled wi ...
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Arabisraeli Conflict - 981 words
Arab-Israeli Conflict The Arab-Israeli conflict
came about from the notion of Political Zionism.
Zionism is the belief that Jews constitute a
nation (or a people) and that they deserve the
right to return to what they consider to be their
ancestral home, land of Israel (or Palestine).
Political Zionism, the belief that Jews should
establish a state for themselves in Palestine, was
a revolutionary idea for the 19th Century. During
World War I, Jews supported countries that
constituted the Central Powers because they
detested the tyranny of czarist Russia. Both the
Allies and Central Powers needed Jewish support,
but Germany could not espouse Zionism due to its
ties with the Ottoman Empire, wh ...
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Book Report - 583 words
Book Report The Chosen, Chaim Potok The Chosen is
about two Jewish boys, one a Orthodox Jew and one
a Hasidic Jew, and how different and yet the same
their lives are. The orthodox Jew, Reuven, is the
main character of the story. He lives with his
father and his mother is dead. Reuven is a very
nice boy who is fourteen years old and aspires to
be a Rabbi when he grows up. Daniel the other boy,
is the son of a Hasidic Tzadik (which is like a
Rabbi) and so when his father dies he will have to
take his place even though he wants to be a
psychiatrist. Reuven, like I said before lives
alone with his father in their Brooklyn apartment.
His father is a teacher of Jewish law, the Talmud,
and teaches ...
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Israel: Political, Cultural, And Religious Description - 1,441 words
Israel: Political, Cultural, And Religious
Description ISRAEL A Political, Cultural, and
Religious Description of the Current Atmosphere As
Exists in Israel Israel, in the 1990's, is in a
continual state of political, cultural and
religious flux. Religion continues to play a
central factor in the difficulties which the state
has been and continues to experience. This unique
country is characterized by an amalgam of cultural
and ethnic diversity. This historical and cultural
fact ensures that the difficulties the state has
been experiencing in realizing self-adjustment
will continue. At the same time, there exist
mostly positive and persistent facets of the
culture which continue unabated as ...
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Israeliarab Antagonism - 1,338 words
... n the resolution of the General Assembly of 29
November in order to make them more equitable,
workable and consistent with existing realities in
Palestine. A. The area known as the Negeb, south
of a line running from the sea near Majdal east
southeast to Faluja (both of which places would be
in Arab territory), should be defined as Arab
territory; B. The frontier should run from Faluja
northeast to Ramla and Lydda (both of which places
would be in Arab territory), the frontier at Lydda
then following the line established in the General
Assembly resolution of 29 November. C. Galilee
should be defined as Jewish territory. 3) The
disposition of the territory of Palestine not
included within ...
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Night By Elie Wiesel - 585 words
Night By Elie Wiesel Although Night is not
necessarily a memoir--as discussed in the "Overall
Analysis and Themes" section--I will often refer
to it as a memoir, since that is the genre which
closest approaches the mixture of testimony,
deposition and emotional truth-telling that is in
Night. Finally: it is clear that Eliezer is meant
to serve, to a great extent, as the author Elie
Weisel's surrogate and representative. With
alterations of minor details, what happens to
Eliezer is what happened to Weisel himself during
the Holocaust. Please bear in mind, however, that
there is a difference between the persona of
Night's narrator, Eliezer, and that of the author,
Elie Weisel. Night is narrate ...
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The American Reaction To The Halocaust - 1,272 words
The American Reaction To The Halocaust In the
years of the Second World War, American leaders
were aware of the plan of the Germans to
exterminate all the Jews in Europe, yet they did
not act to save them. The attitude in society and
the state of the economy in the years leading up
to the war made for conditions that did not make
saving them likely. Most Germans despised the
Weimar Republic, which held control of Germany at
the time they signed the Versailles Treaty. This
treaty crippled Germany after they lost The First
Great War. The proud Germans saw this republic as
weak. Adolph Hitler, an Austrian born man of
German lineage, claimed that the only true Germans
were Aryans and that the Je ...
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The Aviary, The Aquarium, And Eschatology - 3,743 words
... s in their psychic "sorties" to locate Soviet
submarines. Alexander seems to have an extremely
eclectic background -- he received a PhD. in
Thanatology (the study of death and near-death
experiences) from Georgetown University under the
tutelage of the celebrated Dr. Elisabeth
Kubler-Ross. Apparently, Alexander is a
"mind-control" junkie, having studied everything
from Silva Mind Control, to a stint in a Buddhist
monastery. When the National Research Council
issued its findings that there was no evidence of
paranormal phenomena, Alexander wrote a critique
of the report that was both passionate and
eloquent. In this rebuttal, he compared the
report's apparent a priori conclusions to the C ...
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The Jewish Way Of Life Has Been Affected In A Tremendous - 1,590 words
The Jewish way of life has been affected in a
tremendous way by the people of the United States
of America. By the time of the signing of the
Declaration of Independence, there were only 2500
Jews in America. For forty years beginning in
1840, 250,000 Jews (primarily from Germany,
Hungary, and Bohemia) entered this country.
Anti-Semitism and economic woes in Eastern Europe
went from bad to worse after the pogroms of
1881-1882. Almost three million Eastern European
Jews left between 1881 and 1914, two million (85%)
of which decided to come to America, where they
thought "the streets were paved with gold." They
were wrong. Because of this intercontinental
migration, the social characterization ...
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The Jews Are A People With A Multitude Of Dilemmas From The - 1,153 words
The Jews are a people with a multitude of
dilemmas. From the Israelite tribes to the
prosperous modern day Israel , bigotry towards the
Jews has been greatly evident. The Jewish race has
acted as Escape Goat for many crisis throughout
history including the black plaque which swept
across Europe in the 14th century. The
establishment of Israel was a great incident was
something the Jewish people were striving to
obtain for generations. This, however, led to four
major conflicts between Israel and the Arab
countries. One of the most meaningful wars was the
Six-Day War. Events such as the holocaust have
also had a dramatic effect on world history and
whose mysteries are still being unravelled. ...
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The Most Extreme Precursor To The Reform Movement Was A Man By - 956 words
The most extreme precursor to the Reform movement
was a man by the name of Samuel Holdheim. He was
born in 1806 in Kempo in the province of Posen. At
a young age he studied at a yeshiva and received a
Talmudic education. He began to study German and
secular subjects after his marriage to a woman
with a modern education. After their divorce
several years later, he began studying at the
University of Prague and Berlin and received a
doctorate from the University of Leipzig.
Following service in Frankfurt -Am-Oder he became
a Landesrabbiner or chief Rabbi of
Mecklenberg-Schewerin. In the year 1847 he became
the rabbinate of a reform congregation in Berlin .
At this point he already disapproved ...
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Theodor Herzl - 730 words
Theodor Herzl Theodor Herzl was certainly not the
first Jew to dream of Zion, but he nevertheless
put the wheels in motion (Zionism 1). Zionism is
the name given to the political and ideological
creation of a Jewish national state. The rise of
the Zionist movement in the late 19th century
culminated in the creation of this state in
Palestine in 1948. Herzl was born of well to do
middle-class parents. He first studied in a
scientific secondary school, but to escape from
its anti-Semitic atmosphere he transferred in 1875
to a school where most of the students were Jews.
In 1878 the family moved from Budapest to Vienna,
where he entered the University of Vienna to study
law. He received his lic ...
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Theodore Herzl - 1,111 words
Theodore Herzl Theodore Herzl was born in
Budapest, Hungary, in 1860. He was raised in an
assimilated Jewish family that celebrated
Christmas. He moved to Vienna, Austria, where he
studied for the bar exam and later in 1884 was
awarded a doctorate of law from the University of
Vienna. However, instead of practicing law, he
chose the dual career of journalist and
playwright. His Judaism was not much of a factor
in his life. In 1894, when Herzl was 34, an
earth-shattering event in France transformed his
life forever. He was sent there to cover the trial
of Alfred Dreyfus. Dreyfus was a French Jewish
Army captain accused of treason, for selling
military secrets to Germany. It soon became obviou ...
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